The Reed Building has fostered in its tenants some truly unique designs in the creative use of floor space, but Victoria Christian has put the icing on the cake in that category.

Victoria just recently moved her company, Nitrox, into spacious first floor space in the Reed Building. Housed in an area of new hardwood floors complimenting the traditional yellow pine post and beam construction, the old brick interior walls and new window panes in the old window frames, Nitrox is in an area that prompted one visitor to comment, "This is so beautiful I could live here, let alone work here."

Prior to the arrival of office furniture, Victoria and colleague Robert Evans strategically placed area rugs about their space. One does not have to be around Victoria long before one learns that she is an executive of action. She was not going to stand around and look at the area rugs in the beautiful surroundings and simply wait for an office furniture truck to arrive at the front door.

There was work to do. And that's what she did, she went to work.

When I strolled through with camera to meet new tenants, she graciously introduced herself and then invited me over to her office.

Her office?

I was staring at an area rug in the middle of the floor that was adorned with spread sheets and work books along one edge. After the niceties of the introduction had passed, Victoria went "into" her office and began work. I did beg her to look up for one photograph.

As Michael Goodmon would say, as he does in the American Tobacco Historic District newsletter, "... and the beat goes on."

Creativity ... ingenuity ... they all go hand in hand with not only the restoration at the Historic District, but also the occupation at the District by new tenants.